Looking through the lens of a teacher's life: The power of prototypical stories in understanding teachers' instructional decisions in mathematics

The focus of this narrative inquiry was to examine how teachers describe influences on their instructional decisions in mathematics. Using a lens provided by pivotal or prototypical stories teachers told about their past experiences, connections were suggested between these past experiences and their instructional decisions. These connections helped to illustrate how instructional decisions may be shaped by priorities and beliefs established earlier in life, as well as by current contexts. Further research on the use and characteristics of prototypical stories is suggested.     

Sustaining continued acceleration in reading comprehension achievement following an intervention

Schooling improvement initiatives have demonstrated that moderate but significant achievement gains are possible with well designed interventions, but there is little research into whether these gains can be sustained. The present study examines the extent to which acceleration in achievement made during a three-year literacy intervention and the associated school-based practices were continued. Statistical modelling showed continued acceleration in student achievement (four months in addition to expected progress) at a rate similar to the intervention. The school-based practices associated with sustainability were part of a process of change (rather than a specific instructional programme) comprising two dimensions — organisational learning through ongoing inquiry into solving problems arising from teaching and learning and the development of professional learning communities to promote organisational learning. Effectiveness was enhanced by schools embedding the process into their normal school routines as part of a coherent instructional programme and the availability of expertise.

Rethinking assumptions of demographic privilege: Diversity among White preservice teachers

In this study, White preservice teachers engaged in a dialogue circle around issues of race and racism in the classroom. Evidence indicated a need to reevaluate and diversify the ways in which each participant embodied and enacted Whiteness. The participants are compared to generalizations of White preservice teachers found in the literature. Findings are presented in the form of racial development biographies co-written with the participants. Implications include being more specific and individual in the preparation of White preservice teachers and rethinking assumptions in the field of Multicultural Teacher Education.     

Literacy's verb: Exploring what literacy is and what literacy does

This article considers contemporary policy claims about “what literacy is” and “what literacy does.” First, the article reviews in-depth the ways in which development discourses define literacy, and the claims made in development discourses about the “consequences” of literacy for economic and political development. I then draw on 24 months of ethnographic research in Brazil with 41 highly impoverished literacy students from four literacy programs in two cities in order to demonstrate that there is no predictable “impact” of literacy on development. Instead, I show that the opportunities afforded by literacy depend greatly on the types of literacy and the types of literacy programs made available to students, as well as students’ cultural understandings of literacy and the social, political, and economic contexts within which they attempt to assert new literacy practices. The article concludes that we should not consider literacy as an actor with some “impact”; instead, we should examine how people use literacy in ways that are conditioned by social and cultural forces.     

教师话语策略对提高英语课堂学生话语输出的作用

教师话语的研究对提高学生话语输出意义重大,同时也有利于提高学生交际能力和综合能力.本文对非英语专业教学中教师话语对学生话语输出所带来的效果进行调查分析,提出了优化教师话语的策略,以期有助于教师规范自己的课堂语言,促进学生的语言习得,从而提高大学英语课堂教学效果     

学术研究模式变革中的学科文化形成——基于美国佛罗里达大学的实地研究

为了梳理出佛罗里达大学不同学科的学术研究模式变革过程中形成的主导性学科文化,研究植根于社会建构主义视角,采用定性的案例研究设计,对来自硬-纯、硬-应用、软-纯、软-应用四种学科类型的六个学术机构的十四位教师和一位行政机构主任进行了深度访谈,并结合该校卓越学科计划和战略规划进行分析。研究发现:跨学科取向、合作取向、基础研究取向与应用研究取向,是佛罗里达大学当前存在的四种主导性学科文化;尽管上述文化在各学科领域的深化程度存在差异,但并没有发现某一特定文化对某一学科领域是相互排斥的;主导性的学科文化在一定程度上决定了教师的学术工作方向和学术信念。     

从文化角度看电视广告传播的民族性

电视广告是一个时代一个民族的价值观念和精神追求在经济文化领域的反映,我们必须深谙广告传播的民族心理和审美习惯,在把握电视广告民族性的基础上,探寻蕴含其中的历史文化信息,才能制定出奇制胜的广告方略。     

试论塔里木盆地的印欧化

以塔里木盆地印欧人种的进入、发展和融合为线索,论述了盆地印欧系语言、文学、宗教、艺术的变化。这一系列变化可以概括为：盆地以印欧人种居民为主体,以源于印欧系的文化为基础;它既是物质文化的发展,又是精神面貌的变迁。盆地的这一历史阶段可称作印欧化。     

Preservice and inservice teachers’ perceptions of appropriateness of teacher self-disclosure

This study investigated preservice and inservice teachers' perceptions of appropriateness of teacher self-disclosure. A sample of 180 preservice teachers and 135 preK-12 teachers participated in the study. Results showed statistically significant differences between the groups of teachers in their perceptions of appropriateness of teacher self-disclosure in the three dimensions: Uncommon Topics, Uncommon Purposes, and Consideration of Students. No significant differences were found in the two dimensions: Common Topics and Common Purposes. This study makes an excellent contribution to the theoretical framework of the study of teacher self-disclosure and also provides implications for teaching and teacher education.     

公共话语中的幼儿园教师形象——基于网络媒体新闻的内容分析与话语分析

本研究综合运用内容分析和话语分析的方法,以微信、微博和新闻网站三大媒体平台报道的相关新闻为研究对象,探究公共话语中的幼儿园教师形象。内容分析结果显示,幼儿园教师的公众形象比较负面,并呈现出职业道德低、工作内容技术含量低、个人品质差的"二低一差"特点;社会形象呈现出职业待遇低、学历低、社会地位低的"三低"特点。与中小学教师相比,网络媒介中幼儿园教师形象特征的描述更为负面、具体、多维且充满情绪化。幼儿园教师公众形象的道德特征突出,专业特征则模糊脆弱。话语分析结果显示,网络媒体通过话语的标题主题结构、内容主题结构、措辞和隐含词义以及语境等的运用来构建公众形象,工于幼儿园教师负面形象的塑造而不是正面形象的构建。新闻报道和评论的对比分析表明,网络媒体新闻报道的倾向性和公众评论基本一致,可见媒体对公众认知具有很强的导向作用。网络媒体对幼儿园教师形象进行负面塑造主要源于网络媒体框架定位的负面单一;报道的"短快式"操作;标签化和捆绑式报道。为有效改善公共话语中的幼儿园教师形象,应增强新闻媒体的专业精神和社会责任,着力加强对幼儿园教师专业形象的正面塑造;应积极促进幼儿园教师专业化,利用专业组织的力量主动塑造和维护幼儿园教师的正面形象;应提高公众的媒介素养水平,使其能够理性地看待负面新闻报道,坚持对幼儿园教师群体的正面认识。     

“Racism just isn't an issue anymore”: Preservice teachers' resistances to the intersections of sexuality and race

Through year-long focus group interviews with members of a secondary English Education cohort this paper considers both 1) participants' understandings of sexuality and race and 2) how participants' understandings of sexuality and race shaped their interactions with one another. Themes established through data analysis suggested that 1) participants maintained positioned racism as an historical issue that contrasted with the contemporaneity of LGBTQ issues; 2) participants resisted intersecting race and sexuality; 3) participants silenced Andy, the only queer student of color, when she argued for the intersectionality of race and sexuality.     

英语教师成长叙事个案研究

采用叙事研究方法,从教师自我视角、学生视角和社会环境视角出发,对一名优秀英语教师成长进行个案研究,旨在为想要成为优秀英语教师的普通教师群体提供参考。     

话语标记语与英语课堂语境构建

从话语标记语的语用功能和英语课堂教学本身的特点出发,探讨话语标记语对英语课堂语篇和对英语课堂情景的构建功能。在英语课堂教学中,教师恰当地使用话语标记语,不仅可以很好地传输教师自己的信息,而且更有利于学生更深入、正确地理解教师的意图。     

教师话语权失落的表征及原因探析

教师话语权是指教师在教学实践中通过话语对学生产生的影响力,它在课堂场域中有着重要意义.课堂场域中教师主体意识的缺失、课堂话语暴力的存在、文本解读话语的贫乏,都标示着教师话语权的失落.本文拟从场域中惯习的滞后性、舆论的压力以及教师拥有资源的缺乏等方面来剖析教师话语权失落的原因,并提出针对性的建议,以促进教师话语权的理性回归.